Debian DSA-397-1 : postgresql - buffer overflow

Tom Lane discovered a buffer overflow in the toascii function in PostgreSQL. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the host running the database. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Debian DSA-371-1 : perl - XSS

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the startform function in CGI.pm. This function outputs user-controlled data into the action attribute of a form element without sanitizing it, allowing a remote user to execute arbitrary web script within the context of the generated page. Any progr...

Debian DSA-437-1 : cgiemail - open mail relay

A vulnerability was discovered in cgiemail, a CGI program used to email the contents of an HTML form, whereby it could be used to send email to arbitrary addresses. This type of vulnerability is commonly exploited to send unsolicited commercial email spam. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Debian DSA-286-1 : gs-common - insecure temporary file

Paul Szabo discovered insecure creation of a temporary file in ps2epsi, a script that is distributed as part of gs-common which contains common files for different Ghostscript releases. ps2epsi uses a temporary file in the process of invoking ghostscript. This file was created in an insecure...

Debian DSA-383-2 : ssh-krb5 - possible remote vulnerability

Several bugs have been found in OpenSSH's buffer handling. It is not known if these bugs are exploitable, but as a precaution an upgrade is advised. DSA-383-2: This advisory is an addition to the earlier DSA-383-1 advisory: Solar Designer found four more bugs in OpenSSH that may be exploitable...

Debian DSA-323-1 : noweb - insecure temporary files

Jakob Lell discovered a bug in the 'noroff' script included in noweb whereby a temporary file was created insecurely. During a review, several other instances of this problem were found and fixed. Any of these bugs could be exploited by a local user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the user...

Debian DSA-037-1 : Athena Widget replacement libraries - insecure tempfile handling

It has been reported that the AsciiSrc and MultiSrc widget in the Athena widget library handle temporary files insecurely. Joey Hess has ported the bugfix from XFree86 to these Xaw replacements libraries. The fixes are available in nextaw 0.5.1-34potato1, xaw3d 1.3-6.9potato1, and xaw95...

Debian DSA-259-1 : qpopper - mail user privilege escalation

Florian Heinz posted to the Bugtraq mailing list an exploit for qpopper based on a bug in the included vsnprintf implementation. The sample exploit requires a valid user account and password, and overflows a string in the popmsg function to give the user 'mail' group privileges and a shell on the...

Debian DSA-257-1 : sendmail - remote exploit

Mark Dowd of ISS X-Force found a bug in the header parsing routines of sendmail: it could overflow a buffer overflow when encountering addresses with very long comments. Since sendmail also parses headers when forwarding emails this vulnerability can hit mail-servers which do not deliver the emai...

Debian DSA-071-1 : fetchmail - memory corruption

Salvatore Sanfilippo found two remotely exploitable problems infetchmail while doing a security audit. In both the IMAP code and the POP3 code, the input isn't verified even though it's used to store a number in an array. Since no bounds checking is done this can be used by an attacker to write...

Debian DSA-296-1 : kdebase - insecure execution

The KDE team discovered a vulnerability in the way KDE uses Ghostscript software for processing of PostScript PS and PDF files. An attacker could provide a malicious PostScript or PDF file via mail or websites that could lead to executing arbitrary commands under the privileges of the user viewin...

Debian DSA-343-1 : skk, ddskk - insecure temporary file

skk Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program, does not take appropriate security precautions when creating temporary files. This bug could potentially be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Emacs and skk. ddskk is derived from the same code, and contains...

Debian DSA-169-1 : htcheck - XSS

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a problem in ht://Check's PHP interface. The PHP interface displays information unchecked which was gathered from crawled external web servers. This could lead into a cross site scripting attack if somebody has control over the server responses of a remote web server whi...

Debian DSA-116-1 : cfs - buffer overflow

Zorgon found several buffer overflows in cfsd, a daemon that pushes encryption services into the Unixtm file system. We are not yet sure if these overflows can successfully be exploited to gain root access to the machine running the CFS daemon. However, since cfsd can easily be forced to die, a...

Debian DSA-172-1 : tkmail - insecure temporary files

It has been discovered that tkmail creates temporary files insecurely. Exploiting this an attacker with local access can easily create and overwrite files as another user. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted fr...

Debian DSA-127-1 : xpilot-server - remote buffer overflow

An internal audit by the xpilot a multi-player tactical manoeuvring game for X maintainers revealed a buffer overflow in xpilot server. This overflow can be abused by remote attackers to gain access to the server under which the xpilot server is running. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Debian DSA-252-1 : slocate - buffer overflow

A problem has been discovered in slocate, a secure locate replacement. A buffer overflow in the setgid program slocate can be used to execute arbitrary code as group slocate. This can be used to alter the slocate database. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text...

Debian DSA-438-1 : linux-kernel-2.4.18-alpha+i386+powerpc - missing function return value check

Paul Starzetz and Wojciech Purczynski of isec.pl discovered a critical security vulnerability in the memory management code of Linux inside the mremap2 system call. Due to missing function return value check of internal functions a local attacker can gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Debian DSA-261-1 : tcpdump - infinite loop

A problem has been discovered in tcpdump, a powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition. An attacker is able to send a specially crafted RADIUS network packet which causes tcpdump to enter an infinite loop. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text an...

Debian DSA-431-1 : perl - information leak

Paul Szabo discovered a number of similar bugs in suidperl, a helper program to run perl scripts with setuid privileges. By exploiting these bugs, an attacker could abuse suidperl to discover information about files such as testing for their existence and some of their permissions that should not...